Minecraft Adventures: Oceanic-Craft, Aquaglow, Lan Competitions and other shenanigans

I’ve come to a realization that apart from the select most popular few Minecraft servers don’t last for very long, Australian servers anyway. I’ve been on quite a few now and it seems like an endless cycle of them being started then closed down after a while then either the community moving to another or someone else starts a new server then they find that managing a Minecraft server is hard work then they stop and give it to someone else or just stop. It’s the reason I wouldn’t bother starting one as it’s a hell of a lot of work, especially dealing with random people who aren’t your friends.

I’ve noticed this happening more as Minecraft gets older and it’s the same with me really, I really just can’t keep myself that interested anymore, as I’ve done the same survival thing a lot, and it’s getting a bit old, but I think it’s because I end up doing the same thing all of the time and I need to branch out and trying different things, achievements, alchemy, weapons enchants exploring more, getting to the end, if only I could get motivated. What motivates me most now is LAN competitions, as it gives me that drive to create and show off what I’ve done and be recognised and applauded but don’t we all want that I spose?

But I digress, I have nonetheless managed to participate in and create things under several different circumstances inc just casually hopping on servers, LAN competitions and just experimentation of my own so I will detail what has happened in the interim of my last Minecraft Adventures which was quite a while ago, back in 2013! Man I have some catching up to do.

Lanslide V9 Minecraft Comp

So we’ll start with the Lanslide V9 Minecraft Comp which had been changed to an obstacle course comp. As you could probably guess I was pretty peeved about this as the Minecraft Build Comp was my forte and was pretty much the only thing at the LAN that I had a chance at winning so to take that away I really had nothing left. But I learned to deal with it as it was out of my hands and it was kind of true that it was usually between just two of us who were really competitive and the same people winning all the time and TBH it gives me time to relax a little as building in Minecraft from 11am till 5pm (sometimes more) got me pretty sweaty. So anyway with the Lanslide V9 Comp I only got a few shots of the pre-challenge, I unfortunately didn’t get any of the main course inside the castle which was a shame cause it was pretty damn epic with huge caverns and mazes and even an interactive tunnel questionnaire at the end. Needless to say I didn’t come first in this comp but it was fun nonetheless (and a lot less stressful).

The Castle where the main course was held.

Oceanic Craft

So awhile after having left Vancraft I was searching for another Australian server to join and came across Oceanic-Craft, which surprise-surprise is now defunct though it was an ok server while it lasted despite some of the admins being uptight pricks. I made a good friend in a guy named Silent_Puppy (now Shiny_Puppy, reminds me a bit of Snoop Dogg and Lion haha) and I soon joined his Megacity though I lived in the nearby forest, which you may have seen in my Minecraft Creations post on my Spruce Forest Tower which I created while I was there.

An earlier spawn point, I had pretty much chopped down every tree around it lol

Silent_Puppy's Megacity

Megacity in all it's glory

A view of my hole from the top of the sign

My forest hole, you can see the world border in the background.

I liked this place, it was one of my better underground holes.

Nightchoppin'

Bunny!

Megacity at Sunset

I made a house for another player who needed one as I was good at making basic houses and they liked it very much. I also participated in a few server games including a Maze (Which I won :D) and an obstacle course (Which I didn’t L)

Oceanic craft supports gay marriage lol

I won the maze comp!

But not the obstacle course

A house I made for another player.

After I had finished my tower I needed a break and when I got back Megacity had unfortunately been griefed and the tenants had moved away, Thankfully my tower was still standing as it was in a separate claim, ha HA! After that I decided to grab some resources from the ruined Megacity (especially the sign) in order to use for my new home, I did some more exploring on the server looking at various other people’s creations that had been abandoned (i.e no claim) and grabbed some materials for that too.

The new spawn (they replaced the trees haha)

Inside the spawn

Getting resources from the sign

The now griefed Megacity :(

And they expanded it too.

Unfortunately because a few of the admins as I mentioned before were very particular about this I ended up being banned for ‘griefing’ much to my protest as the land wasn’t even claimed. Silent_Puppy had left by this time but it didn’t matter anyway as the server soon got shut down, probably cause there was no-one playing cause some of the admins were cocks, just sayin’ hah

Aquaglow

Luckily for me my buddy Shiny_Puppy from the Oceanic Craft server had made a server of his own and I quickly joined and then quickly became a member of the new “Soul City” which was maintained by Kanga if I remember correctly. The city was pretty damn impressive with Giant trees and many layered parks, a church and a manner of many layered houses. After much though I decided on an interesting take on a past idea of mine. The idea was is that I’d name my claim “JD’s Funny Farm” or something like that  and have a normal looking farm with animals and crops on the top but on the bottom I’d have an underground house with glass skylights similar to my previous one except that there will be water above the skylights so it looks like a perfectly normal farm. I would then create a well in the middle so I could disappear into it down to my house. So I went on my merry way of creating the farm but unfortunately before I could finish the map needed to be reset so I lost basically all that I had done though this was usually the way with Mutliplayer and I don’t really think  I’m going to other making anything significant on one anymore. I ended up remaking the house in creative mode though I will have a post up about that later.

New hidey hole, went the full 256x256 Realistic by Cyberghoste this time

Towers! that one looks like the Empire state

Zeppelin!

I think this was the obstacle course arena, could be seen from the ground lol

Some custom blocks here

Soul City from the Zeppelin

The first attempt at my Overfarm, was a bit smaller then the real one heh

When I came back after the reset I did a bit of exploring on the server then decided to settle on a Mushroom island for a change with the idea of making some sort of “Magic Mushroom Palace” I struggled a bit with farming as bamboo for example doesn’t grow on mycelium so you have to make it separate. The other problem was I would have wanted to make the main body of the house out of Mushrooms with the interior being normal wood and carpet, but you can’t cut down mushrooms and collect the resources like you do for trees they just break apart.I won this "Hunting Rifle" that was a modded weapon on the server, it was basically a piece of iron horse armor that could "shoot" and was ridiculously powerful and to top it off it also had night vision and unlimited "ammo" crazy lol

To the seas!

A lovely sunset on my Mushroom island

One of the new Ocean Monuments was near my island, I jumped in quickly to have a look then was scared off by the guardians lol

The "Hunting Rifle with Night Vision on

And Night vision off, this was my home base btw

So I spent a while working out what resource I should use for the house and decided on Acacia Wood. I had been sheltering from the rain underneath a mushroom so I decided to make my house on top of the mushroom. Wasn’t exactly as good as I wanted it to be it was kind of just a plain loft house really but it was enough I guess.

My finished house.

Building a farm free of mycelium

Wheat farm.

Shortly after I had stopped playing for a bit I saw that Shiny_Puppy had stepped down as server owner and the guy who was admin of Oceanic-craft took over. Then most recently I saw the server had shut down completely, dang well shit happens I’d just like to thank Silent/Shiny for making my time there enjoyable. I actually did try to create a world in Singleplayer that was entirely Mushroom biome but unfortunately it didn't have red mushrooms just white so I'd like have to make a normal map and zoom around to try and find a mushroom biome though I suppose it's doable.

Baby Mooshrooms!

After that I left to play some more Star Wars the Old Republic but did manage to mess around with some Amplified word which was fun, damn they are amazing but would be a nightmare to play on.

The amplified world, awesome to look at, crazy to play on it

So that was basically a quick sum up of what happened in that period, I will create a post regarding my Overfarm soon. I’m currently making an entry for the  Digital Blasphemy Sandbox Challenge 2015 where I’m creating Desert Snow which is a lot of fun to do. I’m thinking of doing another singleplayer adventure (not making some huge thing this time) with lots of mods like Mo’creatures and Biomes O’Plenty and maybe even a shaders mod to make it more interesting. I’m also determined to get Forge working this time as I’ve never been able to do it but I want to in order to get a MapMod working as the old Rei’s Minimap is no longer working. I think what I’ll have to do is just pick an update or version level (preferably 1.8) and get everything I can for that to make the whole adventure super awesome. Meanwhile I’ve got Star Wars Dark Forces, GTA5 and Mercenaries to get through.

Never stop building!

JD

No place is forever